{"id":488268,"date":"2026-02-24T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:41:07","slug":"iroquois-national-wildlife-refuge-in-orleans-and-genesee-counties-says-bald-eagle-laid-first-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488268\/","title":{"rendered":"Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Orleans and Genesee counties says bald eagle laid first egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BASOM, N.Y. \u2014 Exciting news out of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Orleans and Genesee counties. Officials at the refuge believe a female bald eagle laid her first egg. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/185Zp4oSJZ\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/185Zp4oSJZ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see the nest camera.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The egg was likely laid on Friday evening, officials said. There is a possibility she could lay a second egg as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bald eagle eggs typically take around 35 days to hatch.<\/p>\n<p>The Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1958, serves as a living space for migratory waterfowl. To learn more, visit the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/iroquois\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/iroquois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/bald-eagle\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bald eagle<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/iroquois-national-wildlife-refuge\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BASOM, N.Y. \u2014 Exciting news out of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Orleans and Genesee counties. Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7501,223849,79,201],"class_list":["post-488268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bald-eagle","tag-iroquois-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}